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GONNAFISTYA wrote:One more question: How do you guys get such high contrast in your picts? Is there something I can tweak with a good setting?

Or do you guys just PS it afterwards?

If you mean in comparison to the shots you posted on the last page, I don't think you need any more. If you push it too much higher, you start to lose detail in your shadows. The quality of lens or digital sensor/film dictates how far you can push it before things start to get lost.

Generally though, you just pay attention to the light. High contrast light will give you what you want, but you run the risk of blowing out highlights/losing shadows or washing out color. Low contrast light can give you better color saturation, but little contrast. I think some people who shoot slide film intentionally underexpose to get better color saturation at the expenses of shadow detail.

MaCaBr3 wrote:

This makes me dizzy


You guys are all amazing... I like Saturn's pictures on the previous page.

Here's some medium format portraits I took for a class a few days ago. We're supposed to shoot someone in high school. I think the professor thought he was challenging us to talk to a high schooler, but it wasn't that hard...





I had more of this kid, but half the roll was overexposed enough to make them useless...

my eyes hurt

You talk the talk, but can you walk the walk, Tonto?

Here's one for you hate.. I know how much pollution brings a tear to your eye

Lots of Crest Toothpaste in that photo Dave.

What gives?

Awesome pictures.

I need some advice/tips. I'm trying to do some HDR, any helpful websites? I have Lightroom and CS3. What do you guys use to produce HDR?

ForM wrote:Lots of Crest Toothpaste in that photo Dave.

What gives?

probably some old packaging thrown out by the local P&G plant... It was behind the city recycling center. I don't think those little boxes bail well.

Dave and Doombrain, you guys both have a 5D. Is it my impression or are the quality of the pictures taken with the 5D noticeably superior to a 400D? Either my 400D is crap or the 5D is much more shaper, warmer and colorful.

I was in a mac store the other day and this dude loaded his pictures he took with his 5D on a iMac. Judging by the pictures he was not a pro, but his pictures were all crystal crisp clear and alot warmer than my 400D. And these were all simple family pictures taken in a zoo.
Also Doombrain, relatively "simple" pictures look better than any of the long exposure or high contrast pictures I make with my 400D...

Do you guys noticed a realy difference between the 5D and other inferior models you guys had?

Either I'm gonna let my 400D checked or I'm gonna buy a 5D...

btw, I notice a lack of contrast and colorrange with all my lenses (50mm 1.8 - 17-40F4 - 70-200 F4)

"Warmth" is more a product of how you process the picture than what you get out of the camera... nevertheless, the 5D is still the price performance leader even if you include the D3. There's a reason the 5D originally retailed for more than 3 times what a 400D cost. I have a feeling they're going to fuck it up when they come out with the next version

What dave says but to answer your IQ question, IMO the images from a 5D are sharper and have more depth and I think it's down to the FF CMOS and larger pixel pitch. More area to pack more detail on, if you will.

I've never looked back on buying my 5D, but I do wish I'd bought the 24 - 70mm f/2.8 L over the 24 - 105mm f/4 L.

Paris, Eiffel Tower, etc. standard photo etc.

The acuity in your 5D photos is amazing Daev.

sat: I've seen some wonderful photos of you here, but that one.. ugh :P
color and lighting is nice and all, however, next time you stand there, get the trees aligned with the vertical image borders : ]

That's because of the FOV you get with an ultrawide lens (18 mm equivalent). Obviously I was aiming at the Eiffel, so the perspective with the trees at the border can get skewed if the camera's not level with them.

Eiffel leaning to the right.

but the horizon is level, damnit

Do you use a polarizer sat?

Saturn, I've been using the picture you took of the white flower with the blue center as my home pc wall paper (GKY's is my work wall paper), do you know what kind of flower it is? I know it's an odd question but I'm planting for spring and if it's a flower I can get over here, I'd like to put in some of them. Thanks.

I have a 52mm polarizer and I hardly use it.
I should get one for my 12-24mm lens for landscape shots, but a 77mm polarizer costs a damn lot that I like to spend on other things

I never take mine off outdoors, and a top of the line 77mm hoya is about £130... you're a doctor.

Wabbit wrote:Saturn, I've been using the picture you took of the white flower with the blue center as my home pc wall paper (GKY's is my work wall paper), do you know what kind of flower it is? I know it's an odd question but I'm planting for spring and if it's a flower I can get over here, I'd like to put in some of them. Thanks.

I think it was a Spanish daisy, with its blueish center. Going to get some fresh ones soon for the balcony.

Doombrain wrote:I never take mine off outdoors, and a top of the line 77mm hoya is about £130... you're a doctor.

I'm a resident, it's a meager wage till I'm done with my specialisation in 3 years. Otherwise I would have bought the Nikon D300 already.

I'd recommend you start selling that high-grade dope you get at the hospital on the street.